Robin Good: Find, Research, Cite, Link and Curate with the Excellent Google Research Tool

Find, Research, Cite, Link and Curate with the Excellent Google Research Tool Google Research is a little-known sidebar available inside Google Drive documents and presentations which allows you to do just-in-time Google searches and to easily curate relevant results, including images, videos, text excerpts, links with full automatic attribution references, into the document or presentation …

Robin Good: Algorithms as Glue Between Content, Data, and Insight

Algorithms as Glue Between Content, Data, and Insight Lutz Finger, reports from SxSW on the topic of algorithms, curation and the future, as the skills of content creators, data analysts and code programmers are seemingly converging for the first time. Among others, he reports Steve Rosenbaum (founder of Magnify.net) significant own words at SxSW: “…a …

Robin Good: Content Curation Has Been Hijacked by Content Marketing Evil-Doers

Content Curation Has Been Hijacked by Content Marketing Curation adds value. Marketing does not add value. Many content curation startups, and many of the people using curation tools will probably not like what I have written in this article, but I have a hard time behaving as if I couldn’t see a cardboard façade that’s …

Robin Good: Tools for Kids to Curate Content on New Topics

Content Curation: How To Help Students Learn, Discover and Make Sense of New Topics All By Themselves Here’s a short first-hand report highlighting how an 8th grade social studies class teacher (Terri Inloes) has fully leveraged the content curation potential to let her students dive, discover and make sense of topics (in this case social …

Robin Good: Access Dead Page Tool — and Broken URLs

Access Broken URLs and Dead Web Pages with Resurrect for Firefox Resurrect Pages is a free Firefox Add-on that allows you to instantly find archived and cached copies for any dead page or broken URL. Specifically, Resurrect searches through these cache/mirrors: CoralCDN Google Cache Yahoo! Cache The Internet Archive MSN Cache Gigablast WebCite Free to use. …

Robin Good: Crowd-Sourced Cutation of Educational Tool Options

A Crowdsourced Curated Database of the Best Educational Tools and Learning Apps: GEDB GEDB, the Global Education Database, is a great and extremely useful curated collection of the best apps, web tools, gadgets and moocs now available online for educational purposes. Anyone can register to GEDB and submit any valuable resource or tool by filling …